Can someone please explain....

There are some people in the office for a meeting and it seems impossible for them to talk on their mobiles without pacing up and down the entire length of the corridor. Why can't people stand still and talk? Is it to make them look more important ie. everyone can see and hear how important they are?

i think mobile refers to the fact that it's cordless not to the fact that the speaker has to be mobile. i can understand how people walk in the street and talk but not why they have to walk up and down a corridor. i think it's to do with "look how important i am".

for instance i've known executives, during a coffee break at a conference to have fake conversations rather than not look important enough to immediately get onto their phones during a break.

heard this amusing story how a conference delegate left his mike on after giving a presentation and went outside to make a call. he proceeded to say that the meeting was as boring as hell and the usual pile of sh*te. His conversation was broadcast loud and clear over the P.A much to the amusement of all the delegates. aaaah the joys of modern technology. i'd like to know if he kept his job.

i've seen 2 amusing things recently regarding mobile phones, one was a couple sat in a pub, both talking to different people on their mobiles, and the other was a couple of wide boy business men who when one of their phones started ringing, didn't no which one and the first one answered his, and it still rang so the second one answered his and after all that it was a wrong number, hilarious. I hate the bloody things, irritating ringing wherever you go, especially hate it in restaurants, why don't people turn them off or onto silent?

i'm with you pavement. if i'm not already walking somewhere I too stay still. I realised that sometimes while talking and walking i hardly concentrate when crossing roads and have reached my destination and had no recollection of walking there. i'm sure they're responsible for more people getting knocked down by cars.

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